Soviet Leaders Press Peace Offense to Gain Western Good Will
Washington reports indicate Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev are signaling a new peace push to ease Western criticism after next week’s talks with Eisenhower and Eden. A Bulganin letter to Eisenhower described as friendly, and Khrushchev’s three hour Moscow interview with Marshall Macduffie, suggest Moscow seeks further détente beyond disarmament.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Geneva
Eisenhower
Eden
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Moscow
Marshall Macduffie
New York
Macduffie
Ing Eisenhower
MacDuuffie
Russia
Anthony Eden
Edgar Faure
Integration May Check Red Moves At Ohio Convention
Dr. Mordecai Johnson of Howard University told 2300 ministers at the Ohio Pastors Convention that the Supreme Court school desegregation ruling will steer U S action in the global struggle against communism. He said the decision is not regional and warned of South pressure while urging the church to support action aligned with the ruling. Johnson called the South’s agony real and described divergent postures as the nation’s most critical since Reconstruction.
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Columbus
U. S
Supreme Court
Mordecai Johnson
Howard University
Washington
D. C
Johnson
South
United States
High Court
AEP Builds Clinch River Power Plant in Virginia
Appalachian Electric Power Co will build a 55 million dollar Clinch River steam electric plant on the Clinch River in Russell County Virginia. It will start excavation April 1 with units about 450000 kilowatts capacity and target completion in 1958. The facility will be owned by AEP and tied into Kentucky Power and Kingsport Utilities systems.
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Point Pleasant
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Clinch River
Russell County
AEP
Power Systems of Kentucky Power Co
Kingsport (Tenn. ) Utilities, Inc
American Gas and Electric System
Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
Lady Sleep Walker Files for Divorce in Oxfor.
Mrs Ione Weir once made headlines as a tree climbing nude sleep walker and now sues to divorce Wes ley asserting incomparability and requests support for their three children. She says sleep walking occurs mainly on full moons while he jokes about shackling her to the bedpost.
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Lady Sleep
Enid
Oxfa
Ione Weir
Wesley
Train Strikes Semi Carrying Four New Cars at Pine Street Crossing
A Gallipolis train struck a semi trailer hauling four new cars at 6 27 p m Wednesday at Pine Street crossing. The semi skidded 70 feet into a tree. Driver Michael A. Carinelli 40 Bluefield West Virginia sustained a right knee injury. Engineer John F. Yates 66 Logan activated emergency stop. Trailer demolished, train damaged, two cars heavily damaged, back seat light burned overnight due to door damage. Snow fell as the accident occurred.
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Gallipolis
Pine St. Crossing
Michael A. Carinelli
Bluefield
W. Va
John F. Yates
Logan
Pine
Fourth Ave
IBM Patents Freed In Antitrust Ruling
Washington reports that pretrial settlements freed IBM and American Telephone and Telegraph from certain patent claims in an antitrust context. IBM must offer current and next five years patents royalty free to manufacturers in the United States. IBM patents on tabulating cards and card-making machinery will be royalty free while data processing machine patents and knowhow must be supplied at reasonable royalties to applicants.
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Washington
Radio Corp. of America
Brownell
International Business Machines Corp
IBM
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Western Electric Co
Leonsent
United States
Death faces student for kidnap slaying in California
Oakland jury convicts 27 year old Burton W. Abbott of kidnapping and beating 14 year old Stephanie Bryan to death. They sentence him to death by specific decree for kidnapping and murder with no mercy. Attorneys plan a new trial motion for February 3 prior to sentencing.
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Oakland
Calif
Burton W. Abbott
San Quentin
Stephanie Bryan
Abbott
Stanley Whitney
Harold B. Howe
University of California
Engineer Is Mentally Unfit After Santa Fe Wreck
Los Angeles engineerde Frank Parrish, 61, underwent psychiatric tests after a Sunday Santa Fe wreck in the city killed 29. Doctors found no mental derangement and ordered a full medical battery, including chemical tests, to probe a possible physical cause. Parrish cited a mental blackout and claimed an illusion of an orange grove before the crash.
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Los Angeles
Frank Parrish
Dist. Atty. S
Ernest Roll
Parrish
Marcus Crahan
Labor racketeer Fay wins parole with ban on union activity
DANNEMORA N Y Joseph S Fay a labor racketeer once powerful enough to run his union from Sing Sing will be released from prison next month Bureau state parole board granted his parole with the strict condition that he engage in no union activity in any capacity. Fay 64 was convicted in 1945 of extorting 368000 from contractors on a New York City water supply line upstate He was vice president of the International Operating Engineers Union. Members of the union worked on the project. He was sentenced to 744 to 15 years. In 1948 he began serving his term in Sing Sing. In 1953 it was disclosed that Arthur H Wicks Republican majority leader of the state senate and acting lieutenant governor visited Fay in Sing Sing costing Wicks his leadership. It also was revealed that Fay's visitors behind bars included William F Bleakley long time Republican leader in Westchester and George Meany then AFL CIO president. Soon after Fay's visitor list was made known Dewey had him transferred from Sing Sing.
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Dannemora
N. Y
Joseph S. Fay
Sing Sing
State Parole Board
Fay
New York City
International Operating Engineers Union
Arthur H. Wicks
Kingston
State Senate
Wicks
William F. Bleakley
Yonkers
Westchester County
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Dewey
ONeill urges comprehensive Ohio water survey plan
Ohio Attorney General C William ONeill told the 13th annual Ohio Federation of Soil Conservation Districts meeting that little can be done to revise water laws without a thorough engineering survey of the state's water supply and use. He stressed public demand is needed for such a survey and called water conservation a serious Ohio problem. He noted progress on stream pollution control in the past three years exceeds prior 15 years.
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Columbus
William O'Neill
Ohio
Ohio Federation of Soil Conservation Districts
O'Neill
Bargaining Session Called in Westinghouse Strike
In Pittsburgh a ninth bargaining session in as many days was convened at Westinghouse Electric Corp amid the 102 day strike. Federal mediator John R. Murray and Westinghouse industrial relations chief Robert D. Blasier were uncertain participants for talks with AFL-CIO International Union of Electrical Workers leaders.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
John R. Murray
Robert D. Blasier
Westinghouse
Afl-Cio International Union of Electrical Workers
Auto Show Ad Preview and Daily Classified Cars
The Messenger promotes daily auto show listings on its Classified Ad Pages. Readers can browse hundreds of cars with varied colors, models, and prices to compare before buying and save time and money.
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the Messenger
Three youths to face murder charge in tavern owner slaying
In Ohio and Michigan linked case, James Ronnie Harris 19 James Thornton 20 and Army Pvt Willie Thomas 20 were to be returned to face first degree murder charges for the holdup slaying of Charles Stolzanbach owner of the Hickory Villa Inn near Wapakoneta. Harris allegedly fired as Stolzanbach raised his hands. The trio claimed funds were low and left with no money.
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Wapakoneta
Ohio
Hazel Park
Mich
Detroit
James Ronnie Harris
James Thornton
Land Army
Willie Thomas
Harris
Charles Stolzanbach
Hickory Villa
Auglaize County
Robert Davison
Covington
Harold J. Hill
Hill
Thornton
Thomas
Richard H. Schaefers
Stolzanbach
Davidson
Tunisia Hit By Terrorists Shake of independence struggles returns
Isolated rebel bands and grenade attacks resurface in Tunisia after 18 months of faltering progress toward self government. Most outbreaks are small but highlight ongoing political and economic hurdles under French protectorate. Bourguiba returns from exile amid tensions with Salah Ben Youssef over demands for full independence.
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Tunis
Tunisia
Pierre Mendes- France
France
Habib Bourguiba
Neo-Destour Party
Bourguiba
Salah Ben Youssef
Ben Youssef
Ex-Con Brown Executed For Housewife Killing In Missouri
Arthur Ross Brown, a 30 year old ex convict with a long record, was executed in the Missouri gas chamber for the kidnapping and murder of Wilma Allen, a 34 year old Kansas City area housewife. He admitted robbery, assault, and shooting during the August 4 crime as he sought money and feared identification. The robbery yielded under $50.
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Kansas City
Arthur Ross Brown
Missouri
Wilma Allen
Brown
Allen
San Francisco
Spouse Awaits Death Ruling in Ohio Murder Case
In Newark Ohio Earl Sullivan 22 of Utica faces execution after a three judge panel found him guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of his estranged wife Valeria 22. The court did not recommend mercy making the death sentence mandatory with sentencing set for February 3. Sullivan claimed insanity and shot Valeria after a Halloween dance outside the American Legion Hall in Utica.
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Newark
Ohio
Earl Sullivan
Utica
Valeria
Charles B. Hobtsberry
Licking County
Knowland Open Mind On Foreign Aid Issue
Senator Knowland Republican leader says he will keep an open mind on long-range foreign aid projects Eisenhower may propose but will oppose any blanket commitment. He leaves room for compromise on authority to make long-term commitments for development projects abroad.
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Washington
Knowland
Calif
Eisenhower
Senate
Communist Revolution Peacefully or Violently, Expert Testifies
In Cleveland a federal jury heard Dr. John Somerville, a Marxism-Leninism expert from Hunter College, say Communists may pursue revolution peacefully or by force. The defense used him to counter allegations that the defendants seek violent overthrow of the U.S. government. The prosecution framed Communists as revolutionary by nature, relying on long testimony.
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John Somerville
Hunter College
New York
Somerville
U. S
British Deny Riding Reds
London officials rejected a U S Senate subcommittee claim that Britain aids Red China by expanding trade. A Foreign Office spokesman said exports are rising but limited to nonstrategic goods, following a report criticizing relaxed controls on strategic items.
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London
Foreign Office Today
U.S. Senate
Britain
China
Peiping
U.S. Senate Subcommittee On Investigation
Aluminum Plant to Employ 2000 in Clarington Ohio
A nine million dollar aluminum plant near Clarington Ohio should hire about 2000 workers after initial construction. T Carter Dye of New York, an executive assistant, told 600 Monroe County residents that annual payroll from the first three units should total five to six million dollars. Construction could begin in 30 to 45 days at the earliest.
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Clarington
Ohio
Here
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
T. Carter Dye
New York
Monroe County
First American to set foot on European soil recalls D Day
Milburn H. Henke of Hutchinson Minnesota recalls his 1944 landing as the first American on European soil during World War II. He later served in North Africa, earned a Silver Star after a weapons carrier accident, and spent years running a lunch counter near a filling station. He recalling the moment the general asked him to talk over the radio as photographers filmed.
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Hutchinson
Minn
Northern Ireland
Milburn H. Henke
B Company
Henke
England
President Eisenhower seeks funds to fight cancer and disease
President Eisenhower urged Congress to approve 126.5 million dollars for basic medical research and a new 250 million dollar five year grants program to build research and training facilities. He called for measures to address health staff shortages and strengthen basic health services, with later possible insurance risk pooling.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
American Medical Association
Knowland Risks Bid in Five Primaries for Nomination
Senator Knowland signals readiness to mount a conditional bid for the Republican presidential nomination if President Eisenhower does not run. He will target Illinois Alaska Florida Maryland and California, with a New Hampshire visit planned but riskier if it affects party delegates. His team says primary strength is crucial as state conventions also weigh in.
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Washington
Knowland
Illinois
Alaska
Florida
Maryland
California
Senate
GOP
Eisenhower
New Hampshire
Killer's Note Only a Hoax
In Evansville Indiana two local philologists deem a letter signed by escaped killer Leslie Irvin a likely crank hoax. The note written on a brown sack was sent to Ruth Patton in St. Louis and dated Tuesday. Experts compare it with Irvin's lawyer letter, noting differences in sentence structure and grammar. The Patton letter references a sighting in St. Louis and Louisville connections.
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Evansville
Ind
Leslie Irvin
Brooklyn
Irvin
Ruth Patton
St. Louis
Louisville
Manslaughter Charged In Bungled Operation
New York church Christmas Eve illegal operation case ends in manslaughter charges against Thomas G. Daniel 24 and Leo Pijuan 46 a hospital attendant and friend. Jacqueline Smith 20 formerly of Lebanon Pennsylvania died in New York.
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New York
Warren
Ohio
Thomas G. Daniel
Jacqueline Smith
Lebanon
Leo Pijuan
Daniel
Funeral Home Mourner Shot in Xenia Case
In a Xenia funeral home a distraught man shouted You killed Sis and shot his brother-in-law near a coffin. Ray Fraley 27 was jailed. Russell Liming mid 30s was hospitalized in fair condition. Charlotte Liming 32 had died after a yearlong illness. Autopsy performed. cause of death not yet known. Fraley fired three .22 shots. Liming hit twice.
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Xenia
Ohio
Sis
Ray Fraley
Russell W. Liming
Fraley
Liming
Charlotte
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